According to an explosive report by Todd Venezia, a very rich widow living in a Saratoga County mansion, kept an illegal alien maid slvaing over the cooking, the cleaning and the kids. The maid was paid almost nothing over six years, and wasn’t allowed much rest, sick days or personal days. The question we are asking is what is the widow’s crime?

According to the story, “[Widow Annie] George was released on her own recognizance … on charges of encouraging an illegal alien to live in the United States.”

Since when is it a crime to “encourage an illegal alien to live in the United States”? The Obama administration does it all the time. Indeed, the government has sued states like Arizona for trying to discourage illegal immigration so what is wrong with keeping an illegal immigrant employed?

George is not being prosecuted for slavery even though the working conditions at the mansion were terrible.

This is yet another argument for creating a legal low-skilled, unskilled work visa. According to current law, George had no way of hiring the immigrant maid legally so she now cannot be prosecuted for violating our labor laws, which might have offered the government harsher fines or penalties for her allegedly dispicable actions.

If you were hoping that the widow would get the book thrown at her, blame the US government for its broken legal immigration laws.